From: Alec Joseph Warner <warnera6@egr.msu.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Summary] tentative x86 arch team glep
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:07:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <431DF70F.60809@egr.msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050906182129.5725cf67@snowdrop.home>
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:03:37 +0100 Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> wrote:
> | As an "outsider" reading that summary the message *I* read is that
> | there is some strain over fitting the development model into
> | "stable", "~", and "package.mask". I think I see people basically
> | saying that they have differing views over what qualifies for each
> | level?
>
> The system basically works. The problems are:
>
> * It's not always used correctly.
> * It's not entirely understood by some users.
> * Some users think it should be easier to unmask a group of related
> packages.
>
> The third one's invalid, they just need to learn how to use sed...
>
This is a lack of tools, not everyone needs to learn sed. Just 1 person
needs to write the tool to do the job ;)
No, I'm not volunteering.
-Alec
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-06 10:03 [gentoo-dev] [Summary] tentative x86 arch team glep Chris White
2005-09-06 12:35 ` Mike Doty
2005-09-06 17:03 ` Ed W
2005-09-06 17:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-06 20:07 ` Alec Joseph Warner [this message]
2005-09-11 23:53 ` Ed W
2005-09-12 0:03 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-12 17:04 ` Ed W
2005-09-12 17:19 ` Michael Kohl
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